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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9800866" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Can they?I am not trying to threadcrap here. I'm genuinely questioning whether it is possible to construct a setting that both has an identity of its own, and is also fully "the 5e setting". Because the whole point of 5e was to have as little individual identity as possible--to not be any specific thing, so that you would never snag on anything that would remind you it isn't YOUR specific thing. Obviously, it couldn't avoid having some elements that distinguish it, but they're pretty minimal, not really something I would consider the foundation of a setting.5e's nature is "don't rock the boat". Can that make a setting?Is that "a setting" though? That's like saying "Marvel, all of Marvel, every Elseworld, every alternate timeline, ALL of it" is "a setting". That has like seventeen different variations of every single character, mutually contradictory timelines (which have been repeatedly destroyed, recombined, recreated, redestroyed, re-recombined, re-recreated, re-redestroyed, etc., etc.)Certainly, any specific world/timeline/universe of Marvel (or DC) would qualify as "a setting". But when you crack open the full-on out-and-out Multiverse, you inherently wash out all the elements that make something "a setting", at least in my view. Spelljammer avoids this because it isn't actually a multiverse--it's just a setup where instead of "star systems" you have "crystal spheres", going all Ptolemaic. There aren't infinitely many variations of Toril or Oerth all equally real and persistent. There's a crystal sphere for Toril, a sphere for Oerth, individual and inaccessible spheres for Athas and Eberron, etc.When literally everything is true, you can say anything and always be correct, for at least some corner of the Multiverse. That doesn't look like a "setting" to me. It looks like a container that you can stuff settings into.</blockquote>

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